<h2 class="footer_style"> Teri Meri Kahaani U/A, Romance Dir: Kunal Kohli Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra *1/2</h2> They fly faster than sound and Cupid&rsquo;s arrow strikes a perfect bull&rsquo;s eye. Of course there has to be that mandatory roadblock that keep the lovers apart. And you don&rsquo;t have to hazard any guesses what happens at the end to the lovers &mdash; that&rsquo;s over-familiar territory too. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/Teri-Meri-Kahaani.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 414px; " /> So we have Shahid and Priyanka criss-cross time spans to bump into each other as musician Govind and actress Rukhsar in 1960&rsquo;s Poona-Bombay. They then metamorphose into students Krrish and Radha in 2012 England and then take over a century&rsquo;s leap backwards to resurface as Javed and Aaradhna in 1910 Lahore. The movie begins like the 2003 Kareena Kapoor&ndash;Fardeen Khan starrer Khushi in a hospital ward where a male and female baby go their ways and don&rsquo;t know when, if at all destiny will make them meet again. In Teri Meri Kahaani they do soon enough, on board a train. It begins with the &rsquo;60s and strangely the execution seems to be inspired by a Charlie Chaplin film where after every few scenes comes a sub-title for the audience. But it isn&rsquo;t a silent, slapstick movie. Wonders never cease as they go hip in the 2012 setting and traditional in 1910. It is as if a change in hairstyle and costumes with the help of some props is enough. Shahid does his earnest bit to get in and out of the roles while PC does her I-know-it-all act along with her matte make-up that remains constant throughout the centuries. There is nothing unusual in the story or direction department and the climax which does a yo-yo across time spans is enough to cause travel sickness with dialogues like &ldquo;women are like alcohol and just one won&rsquo;t suffice&rdquo; and that &ldquo;he can marry four times, no?&rdquo; The only bright side of the insipid tale is the soothing music of the film. Teri Meri Kahaani comes a decade after Kohli&rsquo;s Mujhse Dosti Karoge. The director then made films like Hum Tum, Fanaa and Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic. Life&rsquo;s certainly come a full circle with TMK. Recently Vikram Bhatt, too, explored different time zones in Karisma Kapoor&rsquo;s comeback flick Dangerous Ishhq and we all know what happened to it.u00a0

Whatever prompted or inspired this so-called 'thrice upon love story'? It is replete with run-of-the-mill ideas that we have seen since decades in Hindi filmdom. Barely do the hero and the heroine bump into each other that the sparks fly

Movie review: Teri Meri Kahaani

Teri Meri Kahaani
U/A, Romance
Dir: Kunal Kohli
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra
*1/2

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